Well-bucket.



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WELL BUCKET.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

CAREY P. JACKSON, OF LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA.

WELL-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,442, dated November11, 1902. Application filed December 12, 1901. Serial No. 85,675. Nomodel.

To all whom, it nuty concern.-

Be it known that I, CAREY P. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lawrenceville, in the county of Gwinnett and State ofGeorgia, have invented a new and useful Well-Bucket, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to well buckets which are attached to frames andadapted to be tilted therein.

The object of the invention is to provide a well-bucket having asupporting-frame which is adapted to always swing square and plumb withthe bottom of the bucket.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bucket supported in atilting frame which requires only a slight pressure at the top of thebucket to overcome its equilibrium and tilt it to discharge itscontents.

Another object is to so dispose the bucket in its frame that the mouthof the bucket on being tilted will swing out beyond the base of thesupporting-frame and empty the contents without waste.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a view in front elevation ofthe bucket dis-' posed in a tilting frame. Fig. 2 is a perspective Viewof the supporting-frame detached from the bucket, showing plainly themeans for attaching it to a bucket. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevationof a bucket in tilted position, the frame being shown partly in section.

The same reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

In the drawings an ordinary well-bucket 10 is shown having a bail 15, ofthe usual con-.

struction, disposed in ears 11 and 12 at the upper edge of the bucket. Atilting frame for supporting this bucket comprises a band or ring 20,preferably made of band iron about one-eighth of an inch thick by oneand a quarter wide. This band 20 has a diameter slightly greater thanthe .diameter of the bucket 10 and is provided with upright standards orposts 30 and 40, riveted or welded thereto. These standards 30 and 40are provided near their upper ends with apertures, as 31. Plates 13 and14, having screw-threaded apertures, as 16, are adapted to be screwedonto the bucket 10 at diametrically opposite points above the middle ofthe bucket and are provided with integral studs, as 17,

adapted to project through the apertures 31 in the standards. Thissupporting frame may be manufactured as a separate article, as shown inFig. 2, and attached to any wellbucket already in use.

In the use of this device the bucket 10, with its supporting-frame, islowered into the well in the usual manner. On reaching the water theframe acts as a sinker for the bucket and causes it to sink and fill.When the bucket has been filled, it may be drawn up full of water withcertainty and without waste, and the frame by the force of gravityswings plumb with the bottom thereof. The bucket, with its attachedframe, is then transferred to the wellcurb and stands in uprightposition. The bucket being pivoted at a point just above the middlethereof is almost balanced on its pivots, and while it remains inupright position a slight pressure of the hand. at the top thereoflibrium and tilt the bucket to discharge its contents. The bucket beingso pivoted, when tilted swings out beyond the band of thesupporting-frame and enables the contents to be emptied into anothervessel without waste. By having the bucket connected with the frameindependently of the bail when the said frame is resting upon the curbof awell the bucket may be tilted to discharge its contents merely by aslight pull on the bail, thereby obviating any necessity of theattendant wetting his hands in the operation.

One of the main points of advantage in this tilting bucket over those inordinary use is to have thebucket so pivoted and the basering of such asize that the mouth of the bucket on being tilted will swing out beyondthe base-ring and empty its contents into a receptacle without wastingany.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with a well-bucket having abail pivoted near its upper end, of a supporting-frame comprising a pairof standards and. a base-ring, the standards being pivotally connectedat theirupper portions with the bucket at a point slightly above itscenter and in alinement with the points of attachment of the bail.

2. The combination with a well-bucket having a bail pivoted near itsupper end, of a supporting-frame comprising a pair of stand issufficient to overcome its equi-- In testimony that I claim theforegoing as my own I have hereto afixed my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

ards and a base-ring of greater diameter than the bucket, plates securedto the bucketat a point slightly above its center and in alinement withthe point of attachment of the CAREY P. JACKSON. bail, and means forpivotally associating the W'itnesses:

upper terminals of the standards with the said I 'ROBT. N. MOFFETT,

plates.

JOHN P. WEBB.

